Liang and Lin: Partners in Exploring China's Architectural Past
Wilma Fairbank documents, from both a historical and a uniquely personal perspective, the professional and personal achievements of Lin Whei-yin and Liang Sicheng. Liang and Lin were born in early twentieth-century China, a time when the influences of modernism were slowly bearing down on the traditional culture. In the 1920s, they traveled together to the Beaux Arts universe of Philadelphia, where they both graduated with honors from the architecture department of the University of...
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Wilma Fairbank documents, from both a historical and a uniquely personal perspective, the professional and personal achievements of the first historians of Chinese architecture.BooknewsAfter studying in Philadelphia and marrying, Lin Whei-yin and Liang Sicheng became the first two professors in the new school of architecture at Shenyang's Tung Pei University in 1928. Fairbank shows how their western training, personalities, close relationship, the perspective of their social origins, and their experience of modernism, war, and revolution bent the twig that has become the tree of Chinese architectural history. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
ForewordIntroductionA Note on NamesAcknowledgmentsPt. 1Preparations, 1901-192811Favorite Son32Favorite Daughter103Their Teens154Professional Studies235Homecoming31Pt. 2Achievements, 1928-1937396A Professorship417In Peking458Architectural Historian499Search for Surviving Buildings5410The Liang Household6011Further Searches6512A Joint Expedition in Shansi7313Japanese Encroachment8414Interval of Reprieve8915Triumph and Disaster94Pt. 3Survival in Wartime, 1937-19459916Escape10117Settling in Kunming10618Uprooted11419The Capital and the Village12320The Stress of Poverty12821New Hopes133Pt. 4Between War and Revolution, 1946-194813522War's End13723Return to Kunming and Peking14324Honors, 194714825Worrisome Days15526Final Letter159Pt. 5Under the Communist Party, 1949-197216727Defeats16928Lin Zhu's Story176Afterword191Notes197Selected Bibliography201Index203
\ From the Publisher"Liang and Lin is the story of a romance and of a heroic struggle against great odds. . . . Wilma Fairbank, who is the only person . . . who could have written this story, has created an affecting portrait of the final years of an epoch when Old China faded away and New China took its place."—New York Times\ "No one who reads it will forget it."—Boston Globe\ \ \ \ \ \ BooknewsAfter studying in Philadelphia and marrying, Lin Whei-yin and Liang Sicheng became the first two professors in the new school of architecture at Shenyang's Tung Pei University in 1928. Fairbank shows how their western training, personalities, close relationship, the perspective of their social origins, and their experience of modernism, war, and revolution bent the twig that has become the tree of Chinese architectural history. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
